Optimist International 21006 Gilmer County Georgia
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 900897488
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Ellijay, GA, USA
- Phone
- 8505436002
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Service Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $49,613
- Expenses
- $57,440
- Assets
- $87,379
- Liabilities
- $65,561
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRYAN STAGGS (PRESIDENT)
- KEVIN MOODY (PRESIDENT ELECT)
People named in this filing
- BRYAN STAGGS (PRESIDENT)
- NANCY ADAMS (SECRETARY)
- ANGEL BROUSSARD (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Charitable service to children and youth
What it reported doing in 2024
Kid sack is an annual fundraising event with dinner, silent auctionand raffle. Proceeds granted to gilmer food pantry who deliversbackpacks of food each friday to approx 400 local students.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 80% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 54
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 57.3%; rating input score 57
- Program expense ratio: 49.5%; rating input score 49
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -15.8%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.52; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.75; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.4% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 57.3% of revenue deployed · 49.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $28K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 49/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.